Marillion - Incubus track n.6 of the album "Fugazi" (1984) - Fish / vocals - Mark Kelly / keyboards - Ian Mosley / drums - Steve Rothery / guitars - Pete Trewavas / bass
This is my Fathers music but i cannot express just how much being exposed to music such as this has effected and influenced myself, not just in music but in life itself... I cannot thank my Father enough.
You are a jerk Mike...this is powerful music that is influential and meaningful..I'm 72 and it still makes me marvel at the greatness of the song and the band and the lyrics.
I saw Marillion live at the Odeon, Birmingham, UK on the Fugazi tour and after the part where Fish sings "You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask, just like a greasepaint mask", he wiped his make-up off his face and threw the towel into the crowd. I was lucky enough to catch it and I still have it to this day.
I bought this album back in 1984 at the age of 17 and played it almost non-stop. My son who is 19 now listens to this album as well and loves it. Just goes to show that Marillion and Fish are timeless.
Słuchałam z koleżanką Marilionu I choć dawno nie widziałyśmy się i nie utrzymujemy kontaktu to czasem mam ochotę jej napisać i zapytać pamiętasz te cudowne lata ....Marilion nasza najlepsza muzyka
"Incubus" When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion forewarned My audience leaves the stage, floating ahead perfumed shift Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career You played this scene before, you played this scene before I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye A misplaced reaction The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images In which you will always be the star, always be the star, untouchable Unapproachable, constant in the darkness Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction With no flower to place before this gravestone And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin But that would be developing the negative view And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour The public act, let you model your shame On the mannequin catwalk, catwalk Let the cats walk, and the cat walks I've played this scene before, I've played this scene before I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye A misplaced reaction, satisfaction You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask Just like a greasepaint mask But now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun It's just begun Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt You've played this scene before
Nie będę stopniował słowa " bardziej ".Napisze je tylko dużymi literami - BARDZIEJ . Pozdrawiam wszystkich co kochają Maryllion .Szczególnie Maryllion z Fishem .
Had no idea. That's interesting, considering how many debates I've gotten into about whether this album was up to par with its consecutives. Had I known that beforehand, I definitely would've made a point of it. Thanks for confirming that the insanity lies in the majority of Fugazi-critics, rather than myself.
@@Cr8Tron Fish said this was his favourite song, not that Fugazi was his favourite album. Clutching at Straws was his favourite album. He was actually critical of some of his own writing on Fugazi later on.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD Yeah.... Well... It's MY favorite. Don't tell anybody I said this (here where everybody can read everything I say anyway), but I sometimes gotta wonder about the choices artists make on which of their works to be hypercritical about, vs. favoring. Most of the criticisms, that I keep hearing about Fugazi, always seem to be because of people's disappointments that it didn't have a happy-ending to accommodate their starry-eyed expectations, or that it didn't meet the pretentious standards of being "cohesive" enough. Yadda yadda... The bottom line: Which Marillion album makes you the most convinced that its protagonist wants to commit suicide? I imagine that that's the most primal concept, as for what everyone can agree each of Marillion's first four records revolved around. I don't understand how anyone can argue that Fugazi definitely offered the most attitude/integrity there...? Also, as a side-note: With a trained ear, I can easily say that Fugazi had the most exotic-sounding chord cadences of them all. You'd think that that would be a big plus with the prog community...but, lately, I'm starting to wonder about how in-tune this crowd of listeners is with such subtleties, to be brutally honest. 😬
@@Cr8Tron I was merely clarifying what Fish actually said. Incubus was his favourite song that he recorded with the band, but Fugazi was not his favourite album. I read his sleeve notes on the remaster version and he was quite critical of the album, including his own contribution to it. And there were obviously a lot of problems in the year leading up to making the album.
Masterpiece!...Real poetry and a pure dramatist...meant in the best way. The colour and shade of the band around his lyrics is spot on . I'm rediscovering them again at nearly fifty years old..The words carry a totally different weight now the bravado is gone. The whole album is amazing and horrific ...wow, they said it was a normal cigarette , bastards !
+ChessTauren Yeah, that's what always mainly grabbed me, as far as any notable aspects of the Marillion catalogue. Any idea why this album is so often dismissed unlike the rest, when this album clearly featured this aspect you're talking about the most? I don't get it. Even the chords and melodies seem way more interesting than the its consecutive albums.
@@Cr8Tron This is regarded as the "difficult" second album, which a lot of bands have. I think it's also held in lower regard because Fish's lyrics are at their most wordy and pretentious on this album. Even Fish has criticized his own lyrics on parts of this album. The album also sold fewer copies than Script, although it charted higher initially, it didn't stick around in the chart for as long. So it's basically sandwiched between Marillion's two biggest albums, Script and Misplaced, which both went platinum. I think that's probably why it's "so often dismissed" as you say.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD Also the Artwork just doesn't seem quite right to me. I can't put my finger on it, but there is just something annoying about this picture. I like Script, Misplaced and Clutching much more. Wilkinsons best work has to be Fish's first solo LP though.
"Incubus" When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion forewarned My audience leaves the stage, floating ahead perfumed shift Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career You played this scene before, you played this scene before I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye A misplaced reaction The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images In which you will always be the star, always be the star, untouchable Unapproachable, constant in the darkness Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction With no flower to place before this gravestone And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin But that would be developing the negative view And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour The public act, let you model your shame On the mannequin catwalk, catwalk Let the cats walk, and the cat walks I've played this scene before, I've played this scene before I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye A misplaced reaction, satisfaction You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask Just like a greasepaint mask But now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun It's just begun Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt You've played this scene before
Dont know whether it was just me but I never quite got the Genesis connection to Marillion....to me it was just Marillion..then Fish departed and Marillion was no more ...well for me personally..really not the same band without him on vocals. Great song from a very good album👍
Jeden z pierwszych utworów Marillion co Tata mi przedstawił, jeszcze na kasecie magnetofonowej, pocharatanej przez ząb czasu. I tak piękne wspomnienia 💕 Dziękuję Ci Tato ♥️💕😢😣🙏
@@540kicker U mnie do tej pory "Fugazi" śmiga na kasecie - oczywiście wydanie pirackie, ale kupione w legalnym sklepie :))) na początku lat 90-tych. Ech, te czasy transformacji... :)))
STEVE ROTHERY ONE OF THE BEST GUITARIST IV,E HEARD.VERY UNDER RATED VERY TALENTED.I SPENT MOST OF MISS SPENT YOUTH SMOKING HERB AND LISTENING TO ALL THERE ALBUMS.GREAT TIMES.
A mis 53 años aun sigo disfrutando de este grupo,canciones llenas de ritmos muy bien acompañadas por una voz prodijiosa,tuve la gran suerte de escuchalos en directo,apoteosico,agradecer a mi cuñado,que descanse en paz,el abrime los ojos y la mente a otra dimension musical,
@@canaldosaber559 saludos amigo,yo tengo 49años y escucho a marillion desde adolescente...bandas y sonidos que ya no volverán a aparecer.... por desgracia saludos desde concepción chile
In all my long years of buying all kinds of fantastic music this album totally grabs me and brings out the emotions in me like no other. A true masterpeice that has lyrical genius and melody and instrument orientationxx
Sad thing is they got slogged a lot back in the day I remember one reviewer saying "Music to slit your wrists to" Others accused Fish of being too cheeky and "Sounds like he swallowed a thesaurus" Jealous bastards...this was absolute genius....
For anybody who doesnt get it yet, this is about a spurned lover who exposes his ex girlfriend by releasing their 'home' videos/ pictures - but im guessing you already knew that!
And here it is.......after enjoying reading peoples experiences of this classic so you come along with this statement. Why? Enjoy your four Fish albums as I do (I LOVE the Fish albums) but please lay off criticizing Marillion post Fish. If you've listened to them with Steve Hogarth and don't like it then fine - move on because nobody cares and we respect your choice. If you've not really listened to it but want to throw in a crappy cheap comment then why? There is an army of Marillion fans who are 100% with Steve Hogarth and it is getting bigger largely due to people (such as myself) who never even realized they were still going after Fish left and are realizing and catching up now......true
😄😄 i didn't mean to bother anybody, big man.just my opinion . next time please don' t read it,ok-if nobody cares about it, as you wrote, why are you criticizin'me?
Fish has never been the same without Marillion writing the music for him though, has he? In fact his solo career sank very quickly into obscurity, faster than the band. One top ten album in his solo career and that was his first.
If artists put the effort into such well thought out and coherent 'concept' albums such as Fugazi or Dark Side... then people would probably buy and listen to whole albums more often, rather than just individual tracks.... wouldn't have to be rock - I'd be interested as to what a hip-hop concept would be like (although thinking about it the Outcast double CD album was close)...
You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask Just like a greasepaint mask
Je valide ! et ce solo....fais partie de mon top 10 avec celui de M. Oldfield dans Ommadawn (7 dernière mn de la face A, d'Anthony Phillips dans the knife (Genesis), d'Alex Lifeson dans YYZ....
@@davidleon7994 Très bel aperçu de votre top10 ! C'est un plaisir de réécouter ces titres qui émanent d'une très grande créativité et d'une audace musicale excellente avec la succession de séquences toujours harmonieuses et bien dosées entre elles dans un même morceau.C'est d'ailleurs une des spécificités de cette mouvance progressive quelqu'en soit le style ( metal ,rock ).Et pour Rush un clin d'oeil avec ce super titre où on décolle .... th-cam.com/video/RtdKhwhAcd4/w-d-xo.html
@@fggw2057 : Bien vu ! Rush, est mon groupe préféré ! Je les ai vu à Londres pour leurs 30 ans, la claque ! Mais si vous voulez écouter un solo digne des plus grands, aérien et puissant : th-cam.com/video/SP0Sp-H0azM/w-d-xo.html
@@davidleon7994 Un morceau de votre cru visiblement :) et dans lequel vous faites un bien joli solo guitare .Félicitations :)Très agréable à écouter ! Merci pour ce partage :)
@@fggw2057 oui, bon, j'avoue, "digne des plus grands" j'y suis aller un peu fort ! :-) Effectivement, de mon cru, fait "at home", donc à des années lumières d'une production pro. Un grand merci à vous pour votre écoute et si vous aimez le prog, j'ai une playlist sur ma chaine à ce sujet
And God created the absolute beauty (5:24) and his son was silently crying upon this unique piece of eternity... There is Mozart, there is Beethoven and there is Fish-Rothery-Kelly ! Merci, merci beaucoup.
Ça fait plaisir de voir un autre français dans les commentaires !!😉😉 Totalement d'accord Avec toi cette chanson prend aux tripes e est absolument splendide... Bravo Marillion !!!
The combination of Fish's lyrics backed with Marillions music created this Magic. Such a lucky combination of artistic unique brilliance, and for a brief period in time. brilliance doesn't last, this was lucky.
Bo dobra muzyka trwa wiecznie , a solówki Rothery wywołują u mnie do tej pory gęsią skórkę , no i przypominają beztroskie szkolne lata . Jakże brakuje tych czasów , gdzie taka '" muza " leciała z radia , i wieczorami człek chłonął ją całym sobą . Tak to było ................. oj wspaniałe wspomnienia
Dokładnie YaroSz dokładnie , szkoda tylko że dzisiejsza młodzież została z tej przyjemności wspominania okrojona , a to za sprawą miernoty stacji radiowych i nadawanej tam komercyjnej sieczki . Cóż syndrom dzisiejszych czasów !!!!!!
mar bro ...ech smartfon, narkotyk XXI wieku niszczy tak wiele, że nawet jak ludzie spotykają się fizycznie, to każdy i tak jest gdzieś w swoim wirtualnym świecie.
...napisałaś o jednym z pozytywów nowych technologii, ja napisałem o ich złym wpływie na stosunki, kontakty międzyludzkie. Można zastosować takie uproszczenie: sam smartfon jak i sam narkotyk nie jest powiedzmy niczym złym. Natomiast nieodpowiedzialne używanie, jak i zażywanie narkotyków do zasługujących na pochwały na pewno nie należą. A mogę podpowiedzieć radio (jest w sieci i normalnie na ogólnopolskim FM) które grywa taka i podobna muzę, choć często i ich play lista jest zbyt ograniczona, monotonna i z bardziej współczesną muzą.
Same here. Now its genius is almost unrivaled. This entire record is the one to re-discover 35 years later because it's so incredibly layered and hits so many parts of the cerebellum.
When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion forewarned My audience leaves the stage, floating ahead perfumed shift Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career You played this scene before, you played this scene before I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye A misplaced reaction The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images In which you will always be the star, always be the star, untouchable Unapproachable, constant in the darkness Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction With no flower to place before this gravestone And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin But that would be developing the negative view And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour The public act, let you model your shame On the mannequin catwalk, catwalk Let the cats walk, and the cat walks I've played this scene before, I've played this scene before I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye A misplaced reaction, satisfaction You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask Just like a greasepaint mask But now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun It's just begun Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt You've played this scene before
Marillion at their v best all time classic still have vinyl version lp, compared to Genesis in the day but I think better songwriting and production. Fish lyrics always interesting.
Oh my...Fish I doth my cap "Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets. As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows; flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary. My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude. ......Waiting for the prompt....waiting for the prompt !" Pure genius...Say no more.
5 dislikes!! Why bother coming here to listen to this.....you know what Marillion are like....why fing bother!!! It does not get much better than this....so if you dont understand it then why oh why waste your time.
One of my favourite Marillion songs. The music, the vocals and the wonderful guitar solo. I'm making my own music now and sometimes you can hear influences of Marillion, but my music is instrumental.
Brilliant song from a brilliant album. I hate to go against the grain but I think Fugazi was a better album than Script. Seen them twice in concert and spoken to Fish on umpteen occasions as he stays near me. That guitar solo !!
Fugazi has got a reputation as their "difficult" second album, which a lot of bands have. It's also clearly their darkest album, Fish was obviously very pissed off when he wrote this one. There's a song that's a dig at Mick Pointer (Assassing), lyrics with digs at women (She Chameleon, Emerald Lies and Incubus), references to the Holocaust and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (Fugazi). It's dark stuff when you think about it and it's probably their wordiest lyrics too.
"That guitar solo !!" Sounded better live, though, certainly on the Live from Loreley video. In fact this song was probably the highlight of that video. Maybe that's why Fish thinks it's their best song.
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Rotherys’ solo in this song is awesome.
One of his best!
As usual
So good I keep scrolling back to 5:26
This is my Fathers music but i cannot express just how much being exposed to music such as this has effected and influenced myself, not just in music but in life itself... I cannot thank my Father enough.
Get a life..!
You are a jerk Mike...this is powerful music that is influential and meaningful..I'm 72 and it still makes me marvel at the greatness of the song and the band and the lyrics.
He taught you well.
lots of great prog-bands these days too. just have to find them :)
I have not doubt, that`s the way for
I saw Marillion live at the Odeon, Birmingham, UK on the Fugazi tour and after the part where Fish sings "You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask, just like a greasepaint mask", he wiped his make-up off his face and threw the towel into the crowd. I was lucky enough to catch it and I still have it to this day.
That's an awesome story , Thanks
I was there too
marillion i fish mega muzyka , piękne słowa i przekaz , którego dzisiaj brakuje
I bought this album back in 1984 at the age of 17 and played it almost non-stop. My son who is 19 now listens to this album as well and loves it. Just goes to show that Marillion and Fish are timeless.
Here in 2019.....nothing like this now....
From 3:57 to the end. This is to me the best Marillion piece of music they've ever done.
The guitar solo is soooo good
I agree, but it has stiff competition.
I always thought the same too.. amazing
yes so tearing
Yesssss❤️
I love this band and everything about it while FISH was there.
Me to
@@hansdietrich3102 marillion freebease
That solo... epic
Słuchałam z koleżanką Marilionu I choć dawno nie widziałyśmy się i nie utrzymujemy kontaktu to czasem mam ochotę jej napisać i zapytać pamiętasz te cudowne lata ....Marilion nasza najlepsza muzyka
Possibly one of the most complex songs made by Marillion with Fish. Love the dark atmosphere in Fugazi. Great, Great!!!
Maybe the best Marillion song ever…..I don’t know……I just love them……forever!!!!
Ian Moseley just gave a whole new dimension to their music
And one of the best songs of all times in one of the best albums of all times. MASTERPIECE!
Fish = lyrical genius
O SOLO DE GUITARRA DO STEVE ROTHERY É HARMONIOSO E PERFEITO ! SUPER GUITARRISTA !
"Incubus"
When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion forewarned
My audience leaves the stage, floating ahead perfumed shift
Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames
Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career
You played this scene before, you played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye
A misplaced reaction
The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images
In which you will always be the star, always be the star, untouchable
Unapproachable, constant in the darkness
Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction
With no flower to place before this gravestone
And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin
But that would be developing the negative view
And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour
The public act, let you model your shame
On the mannequin catwalk, catwalk
Let the cats walk, and the cat walks
I've played this scene before, I've played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye
A misplaced reaction, satisfaction
You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs
The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear
Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity
Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity
You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens
You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare
You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask
Just like a greasepaint mask
But now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past
I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun
It's just begun
Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets
As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows
Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips
Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary
My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude
Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt
You've played this scene before
Must have been a daunting, yet delightsome task.
This song is a poem, this music is a beautiful melody
Absolutely!
This is the masterpiece of Marillion.
there was no other music 'like' this, unfortunately
After 30 years still GOOSEBUMPS
+Ed Lemmer But now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past ...
+Agnieszka And so it is.
hahahjahahaha we say.... KIPPEVEL
Amazing, but it's no the same without fish!!
+carmen caamaño This is Fish. In fact, he was still on two more albums after this one.
Gee, i forgot how out-of-this-world this album is. No doubt a masterpiece
Polacy kochali Marillion. :)
Nadal kochają:)
I z roku na rok coraz bardziej : )
Nie będę stopniował słowa " bardziej ".Napisze je tylko dużymi literami - BARDZIEJ . Pozdrawiam wszystkich co kochają Maryllion .Szczególnie Maryllion z Fishem .
KOCHAJĄ!
P.s Jestem 97. Naszemu pokoleniu brakuje takiej muzyki.
from 4 mins in this song is nothing more than beautiful
Seen them twice in Montréal at 14 years old at there debut .very good memories .
Still Brilliant !!! Wish they would do one more tour with Fish !!
Fish said this was his favorite Marillion song, and he should know!
wonder why... ;) turning pain into beauty... thats poetry
Had no idea. That's interesting, considering how many debates I've gotten into about whether this album was up to par with its consecutives. Had I known that beforehand, I definitely would've made a point of it. Thanks for confirming that the insanity lies in the majority of Fugazi-critics, rather than myself.
@@Cr8Tron Fish said this was his favourite song, not that Fugazi was his favourite album. Clutching at Straws was his favourite album. He was actually critical of some of his own writing on Fugazi later on.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD Yeah.... Well... It's MY favorite. Don't tell anybody I said this (here where everybody can read everything I say anyway), but I sometimes gotta wonder about the choices artists make on which of their works to be hypercritical about, vs. favoring. Most of the criticisms, that I keep hearing about Fugazi, always seem to be because of people's disappointments that it didn't have a happy-ending to accommodate their starry-eyed expectations, or that it didn't meet the pretentious standards of being "cohesive" enough. Yadda yadda...
The bottom line: Which Marillion album makes you the most convinced that its protagonist wants to commit suicide? I imagine that that's the most primal concept, as for what everyone can agree each of Marillion's first four records revolved around. I don't understand how anyone can argue that Fugazi definitely offered the most attitude/integrity there...?
Also, as a side-note: With a trained ear, I can easily say that Fugazi had the most exotic-sounding chord cadences of them all. You'd think that that would be a big plus with the prog community...but, lately, I'm starting to wonder about how in-tune this crowd of listeners is with such subtleties, to be brutally honest. 😬
@@Cr8Tron I was merely clarifying what Fish actually said. Incubus was his favourite song that he recorded with the band, but Fugazi was not his favourite album. I read his sleeve notes on the remaster version and he was quite critical of the album, including his own contribution to it. And there were obviously a lot of problems in the year leading up to making the album.
Masterpiece!...Real poetry and a pure dramatist...meant in the best way. The colour and shade of the band around his lyrics is spot on . I'm rediscovering them again at nearly fifty years old..The words carry a totally different weight now
the bravado is gone. The whole album is amazing and horrific ...wow, they said it was a normal cigarette , bastards !
totally agree, well said
Music certainly has taken an unfortunate turn...but we have this to enjoy. :-D
+ChessTauren Yeah, that's what always mainly grabbed me, as far as any notable aspects of the Marillion catalogue. Any idea why this album is so often dismissed unlike the rest, when this album clearly featured this aspect you're talking about the most? I don't get it. Even the chords and melodies seem way more interesting than the its consecutive albums.
@@Cr8Tron This is regarded as the "difficult" second album, which a lot of bands have. I think it's also held in lower regard because Fish's lyrics are at their most wordy and pretentious on this album. Even Fish has criticized his own lyrics on parts of this album. The album also sold fewer copies than Script, although it charted higher initially, it didn't stick around in the chart for as long. So it's basically sandwiched between Marillion's two biggest albums, Script and Misplaced, which both went platinum. I think that's probably why it's "so often dismissed" as you say.
@@MALONEYCAMFIELD Also the Artwork just doesn't seem quite right to me. I can't put my finger on it, but there is just something annoying about this picture. I like Script, Misplaced and Clutching much more. Wilkinsons best work has to be Fish's first solo LP though.
Great song from a great band....live just as good as on albums
@25yeRS YEAH - HE IS A GENIUS! so too are you my friend - for appreciating the genius of FISH!
great song! and the whole album is absolutely epic.
Real masterpiece! Of of the songs of my life!
Marillion is a real rock legend. Their music never gets old.
I remember it since was 12. This album is absolute masterpiece
another class track!
Amazing!
"Incubus"
When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion forewarned
My audience leaves the stage, floating ahead perfumed shift
Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames
Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career
You played this scene before, you played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye
A misplaced reaction
The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images
In which you will always be the star, always be the star, untouchable
Unapproachable, constant in the darkness
Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction
With no flower to place before this gravestone
And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin
But that would be developing the negative view
And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour
The public act, let you model your shame
On the mannequin catwalk, catwalk
Let the cats walk, and the cat walks
I've played this scene before, I've played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye
A misplaced reaction, satisfaction
You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs
The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear
Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity
Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity
You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens
You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare
You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask
Just like a greasepaint mask
But now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past
I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun
It's just begun
Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets
As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows
Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips
Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary
My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude
Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt
You've played this scene before
This was pure genius in 1984, and it still is.
Dont know whether it was just me but I never quite got the Genesis connection to Marillion....to me it was just Marillion..then Fish departed and Marillion was no more ...well for me personally..really not the same band without him on vocals. Great song from a very good album👍
Happy Birthday, Steve! ;-)
Those were the best days for sure
They were the Genesis of the '80s.
Jeden z pierwszych utworów Marillion co Tata mi przedstawił, jeszcze na kasecie magnetofonowej, pocharatanej przez ząb czasu. I tak piękne wspomnienia 💕 Dziękuję Ci Tato ♥️💕😢😣🙏
Szacunek za wychowanie muzyczne 🙂
Miałem szczęście kupić tą kasetę jakiś czas temu na allegro 😏
Dokladnie tez tak mialam. Wszystko dzieki tacie.🖤
Niesamowita plyta i niesamowity gust.
To jest muzyka
@@540kicker U mnie do tej pory "Fugazi" śmiga na kasecie - oczywiście wydanie pirackie, ale kupione w legalnym sklepie :))) na początku lat 90-tych. Ech, te czasy transformacji... :)))
I am fucked! crying listening to the guitar solo ... damn you. how can you produce such a beautiful music ...
Masterpiece.
"a debilitating speck of doubt that came from absolutely nowhere"
This moment: I am the snake in the grass...... Damn... and Steve's solo.
amazing solo- one of my favourite
I love Marillion, soooooo great, fantastic, soooooo beautiful!!!! ❤
I think one of best song ever, look out for meeting Fish end of this year!
STEVE ROTHERY ONE OF THE BEST GUITARIST IV,E HEARD.VERY UNDER RATED VERY TALENTED.I SPENT MOST OF MISS SPENT YOUTH SMOKING HERB AND LISTENING TO ALL THERE ALBUMS.GREAT TIMES.
🐟
Delicous 👌🏻
A mis 53 años aun sigo disfrutando de este grupo,canciones llenas de ritmos muy bien acompañadas por una voz prodijiosa,tuve la gran suerte de escuchalos en directo,apoteosico,agradecer a mi cuñado,que descanse en paz,el abrime los ojos y la mente a otra dimension musical,
Tenho 51 anos e gosto do Marillion.
@@canaldosaber559 saludos amigo,yo tengo 49años y escucho a marillion desde adolescente...bandas y sonidos que ya no volverán a aparecer.... por desgracia saludos desde concepción chile
Listened to this at 28 ... Listening to this now at 48 ..... I rest my case.
Listened this when being 17.. Listening to this now at 49
17, now 48, still goosebumps
Im listening now being 23 years old and im sure when im in my 40's ill be still listening to this.
Pornographic images in which you will always be the star??
Now 43
In all my long years of buying all kinds of fantastic music this album totally grabs me and brings out the emotions in me like no other. A true masterpeice that has lyrical genius and melody and instrument orientationxx
its my favorite album to :) .. tho i love script fjt and misplaced chilood to :)
amazing album,leonardo.
Music just Isn’t as good as this any more. Drowning in the real nowadays.......
Sad thing is they got slogged a lot back in the day I remember one reviewer saying "Music to slit your wrists to" Others accused Fish of being too cheeky and "Sounds like he swallowed a thesaurus" Jealous bastards...this was absolute genius....
@mcsabanbury Steve Rothery is a sadly very underrated guitarist
This song is a tsunami of sound I love it.
For anybody who doesnt get it yet, this is about a spurned lover who exposes his ex girlfriend by releasing their 'home' videos/
pictures - but im guessing you already knew that!
De merveilleux souvenirs !!!! 30 ans après, je n'ai rien oublié. De plus, j'ai vu Marillion en concert à Brest!!!! C'était génial!!!!
je les ai vu avec Steve Hogarth à Plouénan, ils sont venus aussi à St Pabu pour Elixir
Marillion will never be the same without great Fish
And here it is.......after enjoying reading peoples experiences of this classic so you come along with this statement. Why? Enjoy your four Fish albums as I do (I LOVE the Fish albums) but please lay off criticizing Marillion post Fish. If you've listened to them with Steve Hogarth and don't like it then fine - move on because nobody cares and we respect your choice. If you've not really listened to it but want to throw in a crappy cheap comment then why? There is an army of Marillion fans who are 100% with Steve Hogarth and it is getting bigger largely due to people (such as myself) who never even realized they were still going after Fish left and are realizing and catching up now......true
😄😄 i didn't mean to bother anybody, big man.just my opinion . next time please don' t read it,ok-if nobody cares about it, as you wrote, why are you criticizin'me?
Fish has never been the same without Marillion writing the music for him though, has he? In fact his solo career sank very quickly into obscurity, faster than the band. One top ten album in his solo career and that was his first.
Rushed out to buy this album when I was 16 - still listening to it at 50 - Love Marillion, both flavours - carry on chaps!
A lyrical genius!!!
Steve Rothery guitar solo ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😊😊😊😊😊
Marillion with Fish = one of the worlds best bands!!
Sweet guitar solo
THIS IS PROG!
Never the same without FISH.
That fuckin guitar at 5:25. Gets to me everytime! Steve you're an underated legend
Rothery ranks with Hendrix, Schoen, Slow Hand, Terry Kath, Wayne Bennett, Beck as the greatest rock and blues guitarists ever.
C'est tout simplement du nectar.....de la gelée royale....le NIRVANA ...merci MARILLION
i absolutely love the middle part with best fish' vocal ever recorded and rothery's solo after...
Lyrically, and musically... this is pure fucking genious.
Tu que me borraste de tu memoria como si fuera una máscara de maquillaje! :'(
Best song ever......Brilliant.
If artists put the effort into such well thought out and coherent 'concept' albums such as Fugazi or Dark Side... then people would probably buy and listen to whole albums more often, rather than just individual tracks.... wouldn't have to be rock - I'd be interested as to what a hip-hop concept would be like (although thinking about it the Outcast double CD album was close)...
You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs
The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear
Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity
Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity
You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens
You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare
You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask
Just like a greasepaint mask
progressive is good!
Un vrai plaisir à chaque fois que je l'écoute ! Impossible et pas envie de me lasser !!
Je valide ! et ce solo....fais partie de mon top 10 avec celui de M. Oldfield dans Ommadawn (7 dernière mn de la face A, d'Anthony Phillips dans the knife (Genesis), d'Alex Lifeson dans YYZ....
@@davidleon7994 Très bel aperçu de votre top10 ! C'est un plaisir de réécouter ces titres qui émanent d'une très grande créativité et d'une audace musicale excellente avec la succession de séquences toujours harmonieuses et bien dosées entre elles dans un même morceau.C'est d'ailleurs une des spécificités de cette mouvance progressive quelqu'en soit le style ( metal ,rock ).Et pour Rush un clin d'oeil avec ce super titre où on décolle .... th-cam.com/video/RtdKhwhAcd4/w-d-xo.html
@@fggw2057 : Bien vu ! Rush, est mon groupe préféré ! Je les ai vu à Londres pour leurs 30 ans, la claque ! Mais si vous voulez écouter un solo digne des plus grands, aérien et puissant : th-cam.com/video/SP0Sp-H0azM/w-d-xo.html
@@davidleon7994 Un morceau de votre cru visiblement :) et dans lequel vous faites un bien joli solo guitare .Félicitations :)Très agréable à écouter ! Merci pour ce partage :)
@@fggw2057 oui, bon, j'avoue, "digne des plus grands" j'y suis aller un peu fort ! :-) Effectivement, de mon cru, fait "at home", donc à des années lumières d'une production pro. Un grand merci à vous pour votre écoute et si vous aimez le prog, j'ai une playlist sur ma chaine à ce sujet
From perspective of almost 30 years now, I have to say, this is the best Marillion song, and one of the best ever written
And God created the absolute beauty (5:24) and his son was silently crying upon this unique piece of eternity...
There is Mozart, there is Beethoven and there is Fish-Rothery-Kelly !
Merci, merci beaucoup.
Ich liebe dich das du so denkst .
Y add shitty religion to something so great???there always one!
Exacly, Marillion is one of the proofs of God's existence!
@@robinclark5315 The absolute state of atheists. It's not 2010 anymore mate, atheism is passe.
Sublimely insane!
Cheers
Top of the Prog : 5 : 23 6 : 35 6 : 55 till the end
If I had one, only one piece of music allow to hear for the rest of my life, it'll be Incubus.
True Marillion classic stuff you can drift back to a time and place long gone away from this shit standard of life we are subjected to now.
So fuckin true! Some of the shit music the media throws out today makes you despair.This is proper music with proper lyrics.👍
J avais 13a j écoutais déjà wawww ca me prend tjrs aux trips ces variations de tempo entre souffrance et émoi. Et moi et moi .....
Ça fait plaisir de voir un autre français dans les commentaires !!😉😉
Totalement d'accord Avec toi cette chanson prend aux tripes e est absolument splendide... Bravo Marillion !!!
The combination of Fish's lyrics backed with Marillions music created this Magic. Such a lucky combination of artistic unique brilliance, and for a brief period in time. brilliance doesn't last, this was lucky.
Total masterpiece
...po latach (32) a nadal rewelacja 😊
Bo dobra muzyka trwa wiecznie , a solówki Rothery wywołują u mnie do tej pory gęsią skórkę , no i przypominają beztroskie szkolne lata . Jakże brakuje tych czasów , gdzie taka '" muza " leciała z radia , i wieczorami człek chłonął ją całym sobą . Tak to było ................. oj wspaniałe wspomnienia
mar bro ...jest co i przy czym wspominać 😊
Dokładnie YaroSz dokładnie , szkoda tylko że dzisiejsza młodzież została z tej przyjemności wspominania okrojona , a to za sprawą miernoty stacji radiowych i nadawanej tam komercyjnej sieczki . Cóż syndrom dzisiejszych czasów !!!!!!
mar bro ...ech smartfon, narkotyk XXI wieku niszczy tak wiele, że nawet jak ludzie spotykają się fizycznie, to każdy i tak jest gdzieś w swoim wirtualnym świecie.
...napisałaś o jednym z pozytywów nowych technologii, ja napisałem o ich złym wpływie na stosunki, kontakty międzyludzkie.
Można zastosować takie uproszczenie: sam smartfon jak i sam narkotyk nie jest powiedzmy niczym złym.
Natomiast nieodpowiedzialne używanie, jak i zażywanie narkotyków do zasługujących na pochwały na pewno nie należą.
A mogę podpowiedzieć radio (jest w sieci i normalnie na ogólnopolskim FM) które grywa taka i podobna muzę, choć często i ich play lista jest zbyt ograniczona, monotonna i z bardziej współczesną muzą.
Fish is one off the best singers all time. What a good music.
I enjoy the tight sound of the rhythm section. bass and drums sound so beefy!
This at one time was one of my not so great Marillion songs but now it is my favourite....
Exactly. This hits you when the moment is most unexpected.
It's a song to listen, when your neighbours are not at home. It's a voice of devil, but we all have some devil inside;)
Same here. Now its genius is almost unrivaled. This entire record is the one to re-discover 35 years later because it's so incredibly layered and hits so many parts of the cerebellum.
Same here!
SAME! We was not ready then…
Man, whoever it was, broke the fuckin' bollocks out of Fish's heart.
Now 17 people give cause for concern, though I understand some don't like JS Bach either. ....
+Christopher Wright it's 18 now, some are just retarded
Desperate. Keep them away from me...
What happened to music like this?
Marillion number one!Fantastic music love Fish!My life.This music gives me strengh for the netto day!I cordially green everyone.Darek Poland
When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion forewarned
My audience leaves the stage, floating ahead perfumed shift
Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames
Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career
You played this scene before, you played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye
A misplaced reaction
The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images
In which you will always be the star, always be the star, untouchable
Unapproachable, constant in the darkness
Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction
With no flower to place before this gravestone
And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin
But that would be developing the negative view
And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour
The public act, let you model your shame
On the mannequin catwalk, catwalk
Let the cats walk, and the cat walks
I've played this scene before, I've played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, I the mote in your eye
A misplaced reaction, satisfaction
You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs
The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear
Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity
Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity
You who I directed with lovers will, you who I let hypnotise the lens
You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare
You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask
Just like a greasepaint mask
But now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of film reels past
I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun
It's just begun
Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets
As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows
Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips
Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary
My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude
Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt
You've played this scene before
Best lyricist in the business
pigyob I agree
Marillion at their v best all time classic still have vinyl version lp, compared to Genesis in the day but I think better songwriting and production. Fish lyrics always interesting.
True then as it is now. NEVER do home naughty movies if you are an aspiring actress 😂😂
Oh my...Fish I doth my cap
"Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets. As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows; flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips
Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary. My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude.
......Waiting for the prompt....waiting for the prompt !"
Pure genius...Say no more.
Listening to the denouement of the last verse, covered in goosebumps.
Their finest moment.
Un ou le meilleur.. Morceau de Marillion..
5 dislikes!! Why bother coming here to listen to this.....you know what Marillion are like....why fing bother!!! It does not get much better than this....so if you dont understand it then why oh why waste your time.
One of my favourite Marillion songs. The music, the vocals and the wonderful guitar solo. I'm making my own music now and sometimes you can hear influences of Marillion, but my music is instrumental.
I’d like to hear your music if it sounds like this!!
Essa foi a música do meu casamento . A 27 anos atrás.....
Brilliant song from a brilliant album. I hate to go against the grain but I think Fugazi was a better album than Script. Seen them twice in concert and spoken to Fish on umpteen occasions as he stays near me.
That guitar solo !!
Fugazi has got a reputation as their "difficult" second album, which a lot of bands have. It's also clearly their darkest album, Fish was obviously very pissed off when he wrote this one. There's a song that's a dig at Mick Pointer (Assassing), lyrics with digs at women (She Chameleon, Emerald Lies and Incubus), references to the Holocaust and Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
(Fugazi). It's dark stuff when you think about it and it's probably their wordiest lyrics too.
"That guitar solo !!" Sounded better live, though, certainly on the Live
from Loreley video. In fact this song was probably the highlight of that video. Maybe that's why Fish thinks it's their best song.